B1 REVISION – CHAPTER 1 – KEEPING HEALTHY

What are the 7 components of a healthy diet? How does the body control cholesterol
Describe the issues with being overweight
1. . levels?
2. .
3. .
4. .
5. .
6. .
7. . What is the link between health and
exercise?
Describe the issues with being underweight
What are the different methods of
infection?

What are antibiotics?

What does it mean to be malnourished?

How do antibiotics work?

How do they work?

KEY WORDS: ASSESSMENT:

How do our bodies defend against disease?
Malnourished
Metabolic rate Viruses
Overweight Bacteria
Obese Immune system
Infectious Antibiotics
disease Epidemic
Microorganism Pandemic
Immunisation
 B1 REVISION – CHAPTER 2 – COORDINATION AND CONTROL
Name the five sense organs: Fill in the blanks:
1. .
2. . Receptor  _________ __________________ _________  _________ _________  effector
3. .
4. .
5. .

Describe the reflex arc shown in this diagram

What is the menstrual

cycle?

Describe how the hormones

of the menstrual cycle
interact?

FSH
How are the following conditions controlled:
Draw a diagram of geotropism in roots and
Temperature:
shoots:
Oestrogen Blood sugar

Water and ions:

Progesterone

KEY WORDS: Menstrual cycle ASSESSMENT:

Nervous system
LH
Impulses Hormones
Stimuli Contraceptive
Receptors Interval
Neurone environment
Reflex arc Homeostasis
Synapse Photosynthesis
Tropisms
 B1 REVISION – CHAPTER 3 – MEDICINE & DRUGS

What are the features of a good medicine? What are drugs?

Why are some legal and others illegal?

What is the difference between prescribed and non-prescribed drugs?

How are new medicines developed?

What are performance Describe the issues with Describe the issues with
enhancing drugs? thalidomide cannabis

What is a double-blind trial?

Is it ethical to use
performance enhancing
drugs?
KEY WORDS: ASSESSMENT:
Effective
Safe Depression
Stable Withdrawal
Double-blind symptoms
trial Legal
Placebo Illegal
Thalidomide Steroids
 B1 REVISION – CHAPTER 4 – ADAPTATION FOR SURVIVAL

How are plants adapted to different environments? How are animals adapted to different environments?

What do plants compete for and why? What do animals compete for and why?

KEY WORDS: ASSESSMENT:

How can plants and animals be used to measure environmental change?
Adaptations
Carnivore Stomata
Herbivore Respiration
Extremophiles Competition
Surface area : Territory
volume ratio
 B1 REVISION – CHAPTER 5 – ENERGY IN BIOMASS

Fill in this Sankey diagram to show energy loss:

What is a pyramid of biomass?
Show your working here:

Sketch a pyramid of biomass for this food chain:

Faeces:

What is are the Fill in the gaps in the carbon cycle

conditions needed for
decay?

How does the decay

process recycle
nutrients?

KEY WORDS: Compost heap ASSESSMENT:

Biomass Fossil fuels
Pyramid of Carbon cycle
Biomass Combustion
Decomposers Organic waste
Detritus Green house
feeders gases
Sewage
 B1 REVISION – CHAPTER 6 – VARIATION, REPRODUCTION & NEW TECH
What is nature versus nurture?
Define these key words:

Inheritance:

Explain these two types of cloning:

Genes:
Embryonic Cloning:

Chromosomes: Adult Cell Cloning:

DNA:

Fill in the gaps to explain genetic engineering of insulin:

The first step in the biotechnological process is that a special enzyme is used to cut the
insulin ..................................... out from a human ............................................. . In a separate operation, a ring of
bacterial ............................................... is cut open using a special enzyme. These two pieces of genetic material
are combined together to form a new plasmid ring which is inserted into a bacterium.

What is sexual reproduction? What is asexual reproduction? KEY WORDS: ASSESSMENT:

Genes
Gametes
Chromosomes Clones
DNA Tissue culture
Sexual / Genetically
asexual modified
reproduction Genetic
engineering
 B1 REVISION – CHAPTER 7 – EVOLUTION

What is the theory of evolution? What is classification?

What is Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of evolution? What an evolutionary tree?

What is Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution? Explain how the peppered moth shows evolution in action?

KEY WORDS: ASSESSMENT:

What is survival of the fittest?
Evolution Survival of the
Jean-Baptiste fittest
Lamarck Mutation
Inheritance of Classification
acquired Natural
characteristics selection
Charles Darwin Kingdoms
Species